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PARENTS used to worry that their children would come to harm outside the home: hit by a car on a busy road, lured into a stranger’s vehicle, or exposed to alcohol or recreational drugs
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AT THE beginning of last year, the Government announced that its Listed Places of Worship Grant (LPWG) Scheme would be extended for just one year more and capped at £23 million (News, 22 January 2025)
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AT FIRST glance, a General Synod motion about church flowers might seem a little like something out of The Vicar of Dibley. It is too easy to reach for lazy clichés about fisticuffs over the flower rota. And a small number of those in the chamber expressed
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